Contact URL http://www.ncpad.org/wellness/fact_sheet.php?sheet=182§ion=1350&PHPSESSID=be6e1ae9d8880ff9595432df98ede06e
Women
WISEWOMAN: A Crosscutting Program to Improve the Health of Uninsured Women
February 22, 2012
Contact URL http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/aag/wisewoman.htm
Count Us In project
February 22, 2012
For health care professionals, lay health advisors, and women with disabilities Location: Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and the counties in North Carolina which are home toSELF Improvement projects Administering Organization: Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina Office on Disability and Health (NCODH) Contact: Pam Dickens, NCODH Email: pam_dickens@unc.edu
Health Promotion Curricula in CDC Funded States: Kansas
February 18, 2012
Kansas Disability/Violence Awareness Project–KS Target Audience Community advocacy agencies involved in helping women with disabilities who experience domestic violence or sexual assault This project will support a collaborative effort between Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), and community advocacy agencies to provide technical assistance, training, education and awareness to Kansas advocacy programs on… Read More »»
Women’s Advocacy Services (ADWAS), Seattle, Washington
February 16, 2012
ADWAS has done remarkable work in Washington and nationally on addressing the needs of the deaf and hard to hear community in accessing services from domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers. Their website is at www.adwas.org. ADWAS has training material available through their website. ADWAS’s transitional housing project in Seattle for deaf and deaf-blind survivors of domestic violence… Read More »»
VAWA Measuring Effectiveness Initiative
February 16, 2012
In 2001, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) entered into a cooperative agreement with the Muskie School of Public Service to develop tools to measure the effectiveness of the 11 grant programs managed by OVW. The Muskie School’s VAWAMeasuring Effectiveness Initiative (VAWA MEI) builds and expands on the previous work of the Snapshot Project, a project in… Read More »»
Department of Justice
February 16, 2012
Education and Technical Assistance to End Violence Against Women with Disabilities. Amy Loder Phone: (202) 305-2971 Fax: Email: lodera@ojp.usdoj.gov Excellent website on the ADA, located at www.ada.gov. http://www.ada.gov/hospcombrprt.pdf, an ADA publication which covers ‘Communicating with People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Hospital Settings’ and covers interpreters but not assistive listening devices.
Taking it to the Streets: Mammovan makes breast cancer screenings easier for Metro Washington, DC, area residents
June 27, 2010
To make early detection of breast cancer accessible to all women in the Washington, D.C., Metro area, the George Washington/Medical Faculty Associates launched the GW Mammovan in 1996. The Mammovan is a mobile screening mammography program, which is accredited by the American College of Radiology and certified by the FDA under the Mammography Quality Standards Act. The Mammovan travels… Read More »»
Health disparities between women with and without disabilities: a review of the research.
May 1, 2010
As part of a women’s health center project, we reviewed 16 years of research to examine health disparities between women with and without disabilities. We reviewed MEDLINE-indexed articles between 1990 and 2005 with data on women with and without physical, sensory, intellectual, developmental, or psychiatric disabilities. Our review found few articles examining health disparities in… Read More »»
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